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When To Harvest - Urban Farmer's Guide

To receive all the best flavor and nutrition from your vegetables, you need to know when to harvest your vegetables. Some vegetables taste terrible if picked to early; others become tough and stringy if picked too late. If vegetables are properly picked and stored; most will last a while without rotting or losing flavor.

Most vegetables are harvested when they're young and tender, which often means harvesting before the fruit reaches full size. Harvesting early will give most vegetables a better taste but in many instances will keep the plant productive. If you keep harvesting vegetables like snap beans, summer squash, peas, broccoli, spinach and lettuce, they'll continue to produce all summer long.